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TheyвЂ™ll pop up on your screen and quickly disappear, but you can always pull out a sidebar that lists all your most recent notifications. In Mountain Lion notifications are built into the OS, youвЂ™ll get notifications for calendar alerts, emails, text messages, etc. WhatsApp messages, text messages, social networking app notifications, the whole nine yards you get them in Notification Center. Notification Center first made an appearance on iOS5, theyвЂ™re a great way to see what youвЂ™ve missed if you leave your phone for a bit.

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The good news is, you can try the Beta version of the new Messages app now by downloading it for free at this link. You can now text on your phone, your tablet, and your computer вЂ“ provided they are all Apple devices.

This for me brings messaging full circle. Say for example I need to get some work done on my Mac, I would be able to continue that same conversation on my computer.

вЂњMessagesвЂќ on Mountain Lion will allow me to take that scenario a step further. I can leave my iPhone on my desk, lie down on the couch, and with my iPad in hand continue where the conversation left of. For example, I start a conversation with friends on my iPhone but want to lie down and surf the Internet from my iPad. The beauty about iMessages is that they sync across devices. Because iMessages are sent over the Internet they are free no matter to whom or where in the world you are texting. IMessage is free text messaging system for iOS users (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) similar to the Blackberry Messaging (BBM) system. IвЂ™m excited because as its name implies, Messages brings iMessage integration to the desktop.

Messages, Notification Center, Game Center, and Twitter integration to name a few.ДЇor me what IвЂ™ll probably use the most of these new features is вЂњMessagesвЂќ which replaces AppleвЂ™s instant messaging application вЂњiChatвЂќ. In Mountain Lion weвЂ™re seeing a slew of additional features similar to those made available to the public with iOS 5. There were multi touch trackpad gestures, launchpad вЂ“ which mimicked the way users launch apps on an iOS device, and full screen mode for applications. With Lion we already saw plenty of iOS built into Mac OS. But it seems, with the ninth iteration of OS X, the Mac is looking more and more like the iPad. While it may be premature to give a definitive answer to any of these questions, from what IвЂ™ve seen so far, Mountain Lion is a step further into the future of computing.Д«ack in 1983 Apple led the PC revolution inventing computers with a graphical user interface (GUI) вЂ“ that is a computer with a desktop, icons, and a pointer вЂ“ this became the standard we still use today.

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So what does this mean to Mac users? Why should you care about another release? Will it be worth spending money on? And is this just an incremental update or is there anything to get excited about? This one will simply be referred to as OS X 10.8.

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From here on out, AppleвЂ™s promising one major operating system release every year, and starting with Mountain Lion theyвЂ™re dropping Mac from the Mac OS X name. вЂњMountain LionвЂќ, AppleвЂ™s upcoming operating system was teased by Apple February 17th вЂ“ and should get to consumers as soon as June 2012. MANILA, Philippines вЂ“ The cat is out of the bagвЂ¦and in the mountains it seems.

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